Category: Integrations

A “member enrollment” challenge in group employee benefits that is far deep-rooted than was thought to be, and how a “next-gen” solution can fix it.

Why member enrollment is an area of concern! Member enrollment is a crucial business function in healthcare and insurance group benefits and is directly associated with customer experience. It influences the experiences of all major external personas in the following way: Eligible employees start receiving coverage protection only when successfully enrolled in the carrier’s system Employers depend on the successful completion of the enrollment process for determining premium installments and accounting Plan administrators get paid only when the enrollment process is complete Brokers receive commission only on successful completion of the enrollment process as the way to determine employee participation...

A serverless approach to relational data replication!

A serverless approach to relational data replication! I felt it challenging keeping cost & complexity at bay while designing real-time replication of data from operational RDBMSs, primarily due to the need for layering in multiple middlewares like CDCs, message brokers, message streams, etc. in different capacities which often result in a lot of plumbing. Also, the commercially available middleware platforms are not always free of compatibility issues, integration complexities & high costs. An alternate serverless option that I found handy is to leverage MySQL-compatible Amazon Aurora for such replications by leveraging its Stored Procedure that invokes Lambda functions. While it...

Six things insurers must get right for platform modernization strategy

If you are responsible for platform modernization strategy for an organization that has been grappling with age-old legacy platforms, then this article is for you. Why platform modernization strategy is important? Platform modernization strategy for legacy applications is among the top priorities for insurance carriers. Insurance IT applications are traditionally run on old legacy platforms which is operationally painful in several ways in the context of a modern competitive market. Legacy platforms lead to low flexibility and poor agility that impact customer experience. The rigidity in these platforms results in high IT change management that substantially increases the operational latency...